Билет №15.

Stylistic inversion, detached and elliptical constructions.

Inversion is used as an independent SD in which the direct word order is changed either completely so that the predicate (predicative) precedes the subject; or partially so that the object precedes the subject-predicate pair. Correspondingly, we differentiate between partial and a complete inversion.

The stylistic device of inversion should not be confused with grammatical inversion which is a norm in interrogative constructions. Stylistic inversion deals with the rearrangement of the norma­tive word order: "Your mother is at home? »

A specific arrangement of sentence members is observed in detachment, a stylistic device based on singling out a secondary member of the sentence with the help of punctuation (intonation). The word-order here is not violated, but secondary members obtain their own stress and intonation be­cause they are detached from the rest of the sentence by commas, dashes or even a full stop as in the following cases: "He had been nearly killed, ingloriously, in a jeep accident."

Ellipsis is a typical phenomenon in conversation arising out of the situation. Ellipsis, when used as a SD, always imitates the common features of colloquial language where the situation presupposes the omitting certain member of sentence. “In Ellipsis which is an omission of one of the main members of a sentence we must differentiate the one used in author’s narration to change its tempo and condense its structure from the other used in personage’s speech to reflect, to create the effect of naturalness of the dialogue.” What! all my pretty chickens and their dam at one fell swoop? (W.Shakespeare).